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Bold is Supernatural Speech
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-Chapter Eleven: The Finals part two-
This was the battle that people were waiting for, The Prodigy of the dead Uchiha clan, against the son of the Hokage of the Sand Village. Gaara had already made his way down to the field, waiting for Sasuke to show up.
"Sir, Uchiha's not in the stadium, what should we do?" One of the ANBU asked the Hokage.
"We'll wait, he'll show up soon." The Hokage replied, expecting that he was with his teacher Kakashi. Five minutes passed, Genma had announced that Sasuke had twenty minutes before he would be disqualified. The crowd began chanting "Uchiha! Uchiha!" Over and over again, impatient for the fight to start. Genma watched his pocket watch, announcing the amount of time at five minute intervals. At one minute, dark lightning clouds appeared above the stadium, darkening it, then suddenly, a massive lightning bolt crashed down, and from the smoke of the scorched ground arose Hatake Kakashi, wearing his standard Jounin gear, Sasuke was wearing black pants, knee high boots that buckled up, a black gi with the Uchiha insignia on the back, sleeves tucked under his metal kote, he had his katana strapped across his back, his shuriken pouch on his thigh, his belt kit on the left side of his lower back, black plated leather armor was visible under his gi, he also had greaves covering his shins.
"Are we late?" Kakashi asked. Genma smirked
"Kakashi… this is you we're talking about, of course you're late, but everyone wanted this fight we waited."
"Sorry, but Sasuke burned up his shirt, so we had to go pick him up a new one." Kakashi then walked over to the stairs, and walked up.
"Alright then! Everyone! The Uchiha has arrived! Prepare for the fight!" Genma explained the 'rules' of the fight.
Gaara's sand lashed out, Sasuke dodged to the side, moving in as he drew his sword, attempting to slash at the sand user. Each and every attack was thwarted by the sand, Sasuke then retreated to what seemed to be the edge of the sand's range. He smirked, made seals, and suddenly four Shadow clones appeared, they moved to surround Gaara in a half circle formation. They all made the same signs at the same time.
"Fire Style: Grand Fireball no Jutsu!" They all fired the flames at the sand user. The sand dome shot up all around him, the outer layer melting into glass. Sasuke then rushed the dome, and jammed his blade through it, shattering the glass, but something happened that Sasuke didn't predict. Gaara used his sand armor to protect himself, But Sasuke then moved in with his tanto, and attempted to jam it through the armor, cracking it, but not penetrating it. Sasuke jumped into the air as a spike of sand shot up, nearly impaling him. He landed a ways away, and smiled.
"Time to test out my new skill." He turned, and began running towards the wall of the stadium, then up it, to the very edge. He made the seals for Chidori, and then more, while holding his sword.
"Gatotsu Chidori." He held the handle of his sword at the pommel in his left hand, lightning coursing through the steel of the blade. He rushed down the wall, the blade poised horizontally on his left side, pointing in front of him, and his right hand guiding it, but not touching the blade. He stopped one step before where the dome appeared last, and pivoted, launching the blade forward with incredible speed and power, slamming it into the upper right part of Gaara's chest right where the pectoral muscle is thickest. The lightning coursed through Gaara's body, causing him to scream in agony, Underneath the dome of sand, Sasuke felt something stir, and when he pulled the blade out, an arm smashed him in the face, but it wasn't a human arm, it had claws, and blue vein like lines on it.
Feathers fell around the stadium, and all who didn't immediately release it fell victim to this sleep inducing jutsu. Sasuke had not fallen victim, nor had many of the jounin, ANBU, or his team.
Naruto stood, drawing his sword as many sound shinobi surrounded him and Sakura. Naruto lashed out with his sword, cleaving the head off one of his attackers, he stood, and as he felt another behind him, he turned, blocked the kunai, punched the enemy, and then slashed down, he then turned, cutting another down.
Sakura ducked a kunai, and sank her tanto into her target with her left hand. She turned and attacked an enemy with her ninja-to in her right, slashing open their chest. She turned and planted her heel into the enemy's knee, collapsing it, she then used the pommel of her sword to crush his wind pipe. Kakashi saved her from the enemy she went to defend from, but was slightly too slow. He began taking out more of the assault force with his bare hands, crushing bones and armor alike with his blows.
Back on the stadium floor, Sasuke and Gaara stared at each other, and then suddenly took off, jumping the wall of the stadium in one jump. Sasuke in hot pursuit.
Kakashi saw Sasuke run after him, and called Naruto and Sakura over.
"You two, take Shikamaru with you, Kiba too, follow Sasuke, this will be treated as an S-Class Mission, failing is not an option."
"Yes Sir!" Naruto replied, waking Shikamaru and Kiba, telling them the details and they ran off after the enemy Jinchuuriki and their friend.
Kiba took point, Naruto ran at the second in the line, Shikamaru and Sakura took up the rear. Kiba stopped, he could pick up the scent of Sasuke now, they changed direction, and continued going that way.
Sasuke ran and ran, but Gaara and his weird sand arms were just too damned fast. What would Naruto do? Sasuke asked himself, he then pulled out a kunai and an explosive tag, launching it in an arc, hundreds rained down in front of and around his target which was about twenty yards away, he'd used the shadow shuriken no jutsu. The incendiary knives detonated all simultaneously, causing Gaara to stop and activate his Sand shield. Sasuke then moved in, and tried to carve his enemy apart, each move thwarted by the shield. He then moved back, and thought, he was positive that Naruto would be sent after him, and Naruto always knew what to do. Gaara lashed out with his sand, he caught Sasuke's katana, and the blade was engulfed and crushed by the sand.
"Now Uchiha… You don't have your blade, and I will take great pleasure in ripping you apart. You see… Mother wishes to taste your BLOOD!" Gaara launched himself forward just as Sasuke brought his tanto to bear, he thrust it deep into Gaara's stomach, he twisted, and jerked it up, Gaara screamed, vomiting blood, he jumped away from the Uchiha, and Ichibi healed his deformed stomach and organs.
"What the hell are you?! I hit you with my Gatotsu Chidori, my tanto, explosive tags, everything and yet you keep on healing!" Sasuke yelled.
"I am a weapon, the ultimate weapon, one that can never die and only seeks to kill. I am Gaara of the sand, the Jinchuuriki of the Shukaku."
"Naruto is a Jinchuuriki, but he isn't like you, he was raised by assassins, trained to be a weapon, but he still shows his emotions."
"Emotions will make me weaker, I need to show nothing."
"They will help you, I used to think like that, but Naruto came and beat sense into me, He should be showing up soon and until then I'm going to fight you with my all." Sasuke rushed through the hand seals, reared back and used "Fire Style: Fire Dragon No Jutsu" The dragon blazed it's way toward Gaara, who jumped away when he saw the flame. He flung a sand bullet at Sasuke who also dodged, He threw many shuriken, all of which were blocked by the sand nin and his sand. Sasuke dashed in with amazing speed and began a barrage of taijutsu, his moves literally a blur as he smashed the dense chakra sand. One blow finally got through, and Sasuke then ran in and began pounding on his enemy with the ferocity of a lion who fights for his life. Sasuke slashed with his tanto, used the projectile weapons he had, fired jutsu and generally used all he had.
Naruto and his group had been stopped when eight sound ninja surrounded them.
"Naruto go! You're the only one who stands a chance against Gaara!" Sakura yelled, using her ninja-to in order to fend off enemies.
"What about you guys? I can't leave you behind!" Naruto slashed open an enemy's torso. The number had been reduced to five.
"Just go! We'll be fine!" Naruto turned, made several seals.
"Oni Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto summoned a fox that was about horse sized.
"Hello, My name is Saitou, what can I do for you Naruto sama?" Saitou the fox asked.
"I need you to take me to find Uchiha Sasuke."
"How can I? I don't know his scent."
"Look for the Shukaku's scent." Naruto jumped atop the fox. The fox took off at an insane speed, several times faster than even the fastest horse.
Naruto soon reached the scene of Sasuke pinned against a tree by Gaara's partially transformed state. Naruto jumped from his fox back perch and did something Sasuke had never seen… He threw his sword.
The sword struck home, sliding between Gaara's ribs, Naruto let his momentum carry him the whole way to the tree Sasuke was pinned against.
"Gaara, you shouldn't have let your demon take over. Now I'll have to kill you." Naruto walked up and twisted the sword, then pulled it out. Gaara screamed in agony as the cold steel relocated many of his ribs and tore holes in his lungs. Naruto kicked his enemy away, and dashed at him, swinging his sword, Gaara's demon arm caught it, and slammed him back. Naruto felt his wind leave him, he was sure he even felt a rib crack. Naruto stood up, Gaara laughed maniacally, He went to attack, but Naruto muttered something in Arabic, he'd used a paralysis jutsu. He moved forward, he made shadow clones, dozens of them, they surrounded Gaara's ever transforming state.
"Gaara, I wished that we could share some form of bond, but if you go trying to kill my friend." He raised his sword. "I WILL KILL YOU!" He brought the blade down, all of the clones as well, cutting deep into Gaara's now sandstone like skin. Gaara screamed, but then began laughing. Naruto pulled back his blade.
"You've released him! He's finally coming out!" Gaara's body began vanishing beneath sand, which formed the Shukaku, full stature. Naruto stared.
"How am I supposed to fight that thing?"
"Summon me kit. I'll take him down." The Kyuubi spoke from inside the boy.
"Promise me you won't do anything but that." Naruto spoke this aloud.
"I swear, no harm will come to anything other than Shukaku or anything that gets in my way of defeating him." Kyuubi swore, Naruto seemed satisfied and made the seals, because he didn't quite know the words that would summon the Kyuubi.
Naruto looked at his friend, and said,
"Sasuke, say hello to the Kyuubi no Yoko." And he finished the jutsu with "Oni Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" no smoke arose, instead, a huge patch of the forest burst into flames, but at the same time, no harm was done to anything. Naruto suddenly stood atop a massive crimson fox.
"Ahh, fresh air. Now kit, here's how it's done, hold on." Kyuubi lashed out with a single tail, striking the Shukaku. The sand raccoon jumped away in a way that Naruto didn't believe possible. Kyuubi lunged from his powerful legs, and bit into the Shukaku's thick skin. It howled in agony, the Kyuubi's meter long fangs sinking deep into it.
"Kit, wake up the child! It will be over after that." The Kyuubi meant that he had to cross onto the demon's body and wake Gaara by force. Naruto did so without hesitation, he ran down Kyuubi's head, the Shukaku wailing and beating the Kyuubi, getting no results. Naruto walked over to where Gaara slumped from the Ichibi's sandstone skin. He drew his sword, he then dulled the edge, and brought it down across the son of another fourth elemental lord. Gaara screamed, the painful metal crushing bones. The sand began to melt away, Naruto grabbed Gaara, pulling as hard as he could, he brought him out of the quickly melting demon, and jumped across to his prisoner's head.
"We did it Kyuubi. We beat the Shukaku." Naruto was exhausted, he'd fought a supposed prodigy, ran nearly ten kilometers, fought a demon, summoned a bigger demon, and then pulled a demon carrier out of a demon. What a day.
"I'll let you two down, I can feel your exhaustion, your female is coming kit." Kyuubi lowered his head, and allowed the two to get off. Naruto laid the semi paralyzed Gaara down, and then passed out himself.
Sakura, Temari, Gaara's sister rushed to where they had only moments ago seen the nine tailed fox demon biting down on the one tailed raccoon demon. They arrived to see Sasuke leaning on his now sheathed sword, Naruto was unconscious, and Gaara was, sleeping. Temari rushed over and picked up her brother, who had visible cuts, and bruises, marks from broken bones. Sakura ran over to Naruto, removed his sword belt, his crossbow, and his cloak, she opened up the first aid kit he'd brought along, she then removed his armor, and began treating his bleeding wounds with the first aid that she knew. His three broken ribs would have to wait until they got back to the hospital.
"that kid beat Gaara bad, he's bleeding, and has broken bones, no one has ever laid a hand on Gaara save for the two of you." Temari said to Sasuke.
"He's Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto, he can do anything, he has to be able to, he's going to be the next Hokage." Sasuke declared before he fell over, passed out.
-Chapter Eleven: End-
Author's Notes: Sorry this took so long, I injured my hand in a climbing accident, and it just healed up last weekend, so it's taken a while. I changed the battle, and of course the Hokage and Orochimaru fight isn't there, the outcome of that is exactly the same. So I won't type it. Well, it's not my best, but I'm damn tired, and I need sleep, but I finished it nonetheless.